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ADDITIONAL IMAGES

Map showing the University of Melbourne System Garden’s location within the Parkville campus. Source: Google Maps

Edward La Trobe Bateman’s design concept for the University of Melbourne System Garden appears to have been inspired by a 1499 Venetian architectural treatise – the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - which describes and illustrates an enclosed circular garden located on the mythical Isle of Cythera. The garden was laid out radially and concentrically about a central island on which stood a glassy structure. This plan of Cythera, from the Bodleian Library's copy of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, depicts hedge-enclosed circular gardens, radially and concentrically planned, and ordered according to plant type, with a circular moat about a central island, which houses a glittering structure. In the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili this structure was built of alabaster 'shining like glass'. Source: Illustrations, Australian Centre, p.191

c.1865, the earliest known photograph of the Garden, taken looking towards its centre from the north-west. The location of the standpipe(s) from the Yan Yean water supply branch within the Botanic Garden is unknown, but this photograph shows a vertical element, possibly a standpipe, in the Garden’s centre. Source: History page, UoM ‘System Garden’ website.
Schematic plan of the Central Conservatory at the University of Melbourne’s Botanic Garden. Numbers within the octagon’s segments indicate the stages of construction, and the dotted lines show hypothetical locations of dividing walls between sectors as suggested by historian Anne Neale. Source: Illustrations, Australian Centre, p.204

c.1875, showing the Central Conservatory in its completed form.

Source: Glasshouse page, UoM ‘System Garden’ website.

c.1935 rectangular glass house and old tower. Source: Illustrations, Australian Centre, p.227

1950s-System Garden. Source: Illustrations, Australian Centre, p.241

View to south with 1988 Zoology buildings behind the tower;

looking north from the Garden’s south-west corner [Jan 2017]

Looking towards the south-west at the water tank, from the west end of the Botany North Extension building [Jan 2017]

Looking north-east at the west end of the Botany North Extension building [Jan 2017]

Australian Rainforest area in north-east corner [Jan 2017];

view into the Garden’s south-west corner [Jan 2017]

Maclura pomifera Osage Orange tree in Garden’s south-east;

looking north along the Garden’s eastern edge [Jan 2017]

View to the west from the tower: student plots to left, 1922 Agriculture School building ahead [Jan 2017]

Name: University of Melbourne System Garden

Hermes Number: 1836

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